Joss may aspire to making TV like BSG, but I for one certainly hope he doesn't. I love BSG and think it has just the right touches of gallows humor, but their humor is very different from what I like about Joss's humor.

Wait, so according to SEX SFX, at the recent Starfury/Heathrow Battlestar Galactica convention, Mark said:

"...of Joss Whedon's love for Battlestar Galactica: 'Heís a huge fan. He doesnít really want to know [who the final Cylon is], heís banned everyone on the set from talking about it. He says Battlestar is the best thing ever made, and that he aspires to make television like it') in 2009 as the end of Battlestar Galactica approaches and Dollhouse kicks off."

" 'Heís a huge fan. Heís asked a couple of times, but itís a game,' said Penikett. 'He doesnít really want to know, heís banned everyone on the set from talking about it. He says Battlestar is the best thing ever made, and that he aspires to make television like it.' "

Okay, I so don't want to live in the Dollhouse anymore, no matter how Zen-y and Feng shui'd it is - they mindwipe ya and replace your individual thoughts with essentially one shared Joss-quotation.

Alternatively he repeats this often enough that it gets quoted a lot. But I like my version better, because it could involve mission statements on little bits of paper that actors secretly memorize, eat, and then act out in a Mission Impossible: Whedonverse scenario.

Side note, I am having a lousy afternoon and spy-type antics sound more fun.

Well, maybe it's a question of whether or not they were both there to hear Joss say those words. Maybe all three were on set, talking about BSG... Joss mentions his love for the show, blah, blah, and they now can both go on record to say that Joss said that. Remembering lines is part of an actor's job, yes?

This Dollhouse mindwipe talk is getting perilously close to the Ben/Glory issue. I'm just saying. This could get dangerous. The concepts could cross-pollinate and go wild. I'm not going there, though. No sirree. I suggest no one else do it, either.

You know, there may be a special version of a Godwin's-type Law that applies to Whedonverse sites and tends to mean the end of all rational discussion: "As a whedonverse discussion grows longer, the probability of the invoking of Ben/Glory approaches one." Yikes.